Philip the Handsome (1478 - 1506) was the first Habsburgian ruler of the lands of Belgica Regia from 1482 until 1506, and the King of Castile from 1504 until 1506. Philip was born in Bruges, metropolis in the County of Flandria, Belgium on 22 July 1478 as the son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I of Austria and Mary of Burgundy. In 1482 his mother died after she fell from her horse during a hunting trip in the vicinity of Bruges, and he inherited her lands of Belgica Regia and Burgundy, under the regency of his father. In 1494 he came of age and took the ruling of these lands himself. On 20 October 1496 he married in Lier, Duchy of Brabantia, Belgium, to Joanna of Castile, the daughter of King Ferdinand II the Catholic of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile. The marriage was one like